Let me introduce 2 phones that became the talk of the town in the recent months, Prada KE850 and I Phone. Speculations of I Phone launching this year in Singapore have been battered by the news released by Apple that it will not occur this year. Though an intellectual or I will say a computer whiz kid managed to crack the code for the I Phone to be used here in Singapore, I will not guarantee he will not be taken to court. The Prada phone definitely packed a punch for me, though technology wise it can never compete head to head with the I Phone. The 2 phones are about the same size and they are equally thin.

The sleek design of the phone makes you want to look at it again even after you have been staring at it the whole day. With its glossy and perfectly polished surface all around it, it definitely shines better than any pedicure or manicure ever done. The interface of the phone is astonishing, the best I used thus far after using and trying countless phones. It is a touch screen surface, exactly the same as the I-Phone and the sensitiveness of the screen work wonders even for a big finger person like me.

Yes, with such glossy surface, finger prints will stain all over, but fear not, a cloth from a nicely packed tiny envelope both featuring the Prada logo will solve this problem. Worry about the phone getting scratched? No worries, the package comes with a leather casing printed with the Prada logo. You must be thinking what about listening to music, people may ask, don’t tell me Prada head set; I will laugh at u Davin. Errrr.. Yap! Prada has their own signature head set for u too. What a package of Prada stuff ya? Quickly head down to a dealer shop or operator near u today!! Only $1,100 now!!

The Prada phone is THE luxurious phone to own, just imagine walking down town or even in a club holding a drink with your left and a Prada with your right when the techno coloured disco lights dance around you. Heads turns with awe and you can definitely smell the breath of those green-eyed monsters who want to catch a glimpse of your phone without you looking at them.

I'm currently carrying one Prada, can be made available for your viewing pleasure.

Training suck

Went through a horrendous training at Changi Airport yesterday, learnt nothing really useful after sitting on the same chair from 9.30am to 5pm. Oh, did I mention that all my promoters were late? The training started at 8.30am, thank goodness we were late if not we will have to go through another hour of hell. And YES, Wilson from LG mobile had a long and black face, when we arrived.

The training was about customer service, an overall view of what to do / what not to do in certain scenarios in Changi Airport. I thought the training was meant for the project I’m overseeing which is a 3 weeks long road show from 7am-10pm daily inside the departure area. What else is there to learn about CRM when I already went through abundant talks by many good speakers on my own? And with the number of CRM subjects I took up in school, my experience as a promoter, I believe I can teach this subject adding in a mixture of marketing and sales technique on the way.

Had some problems with a mother who demanded her child and his friends’ pay, she was a loud mouth and refused to talk things out in proper terms. I told her she needed to reveal her son and his friends name so I can check the details out for them. She insisted there was not a need and was reluctant to reveal anything. She said that tomorrow the boys will be heading down to the office and are willing to wait the whole day for their pay, she claims to be handling bills in her office, but she seems to ignore the fact that no company are allowed to issue payments without verifying the details. At last my manager spoke to her and she promised to reveal the details but failed to do so. But I managed to get the boys’ names with my source of contact. :)

The most burdensome issues were that she commerce in Chinese throughout the entire conversation. Damn. I was trying so hard to explain w/o having to use English terms in the process, but as usual, I failed miserably again. And I kept telling her I can’t do anything about the pay out as I do not handle finance. But I was willing to go the extra mile to get the details for her. She started calling me last night and I told her once I got the details I will get back to her, but I was stuck in a meeting from morning and when I did not answer her call and replied her via sms, she started saying I was playing tricks and all. And after that she questioned my dignity by claiming that I do not dare to answer the phone twice. I was not angry but was in shocked because; hey! I’m trying to help u here w/o any incentives ok..

Yeah. A change of the blog’s skin, with a simple yet sleek black background since my relaxing sun picture went down for so many months and I did not do anything about it.

I have improvised a second round of IPP for myself, but this time I will say it is self placement. I had 4 calls from different companies; 1st is M1, 2nd Samsung (has nothing to do with the gf’s dad), 3rd Nokia and lastly Essential Venture Enterprise. So I had a few days to ponder and quickly make a choice as all wanted me to begin work soon.

So I sat down and thought about it;
1) M1 offers $8/hr = $72/day or $2160/mth
2) Samsung is a week end job offering $10/hr= $90/day and $720/mth and allowing me to take up week day job.
3) Nokia without a shout of a doubt was my favorite choice offering around $3000 if I perform well with commission
4) Then Essential called me, they are an event management company, I told them I was busy and will call them back, but apparently I did not. So one afternoon, when I was still asleep, the boss called me, told me to come down for interview and he will pay for my cab fare, I was like huh?, where in the world someone will offer such a thing. After discussing, it is a 5.5 days/week job offering just a plain $1,200.

Call me dumb or dumb’s bro dumber, but I choose the last job which pay the least. My reasons being that I have enough experience working in the mobile sales line for a couple of years on and off. And I did not like it because all promoters are Chinese speaking leaving me confuse with what they meant. And I wanted real hands on experience this time, something I can pick up along the way. I want to tell myself when I leave the company on 31st Oct that I have accomplished something.

My job scopes are handling 50 odd promoters for LG mobile and the number is growing rapidly when I took over after the previous guy in charge left. On Monday and Tuesday, I will have to do marketing report to be sent to LG weekly for all the sales figure the promoters obtained over the week end. I have to incorporate all the details I have from their 4 page time sheet each week and the report contains both qualitative and quantitative figure.
On Wednesday and Thursday, I will have to draft up the deployment list of where all this promoters will go on the week end. Damn this suck when u has a bunch of promoters who look or speaks like gangsters. On Saturday and Sunday I will have to check if they are there physically at the shop and whether is on time. For those sickening assholes that back out last min, I will rush to find a replacement. My boss will call me like every other min for updates of the situation. After work on Saturday, I will have to head down to certain locations to check on the promoters. At night, I will have to get the sales figure from all the promoters even when I’m going for a movie. So I’m like practically working everyday of the week. Shag but learning.